Traveling forward in time to newer operating systems using ShadowReboot
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This paper presents ShadowReboot, a virtual machine monitor (VMM)-based approach that shortens the downtime for software updates during an OS reboot. ShadowReboot reboots the guest OS in the background by spawning a VM dedicated to an OS reboot and enables the user to switch over to the rebooted state where the updated kernel and applications are ready for use. ShadowReboot provides an illusion to the users that the guest OS travels forward in time to the rebooted state where the updated kernel and applications are ready for use. ShadowReboot offers the following advantages. It can be applied to any patch to the kernels and even system configuration updates. Second, it does not need any special patch requiring intimate knowledge about the target kernels. Third, it does not require any target kernel modification. We implemented a prototype in VirtualBox 3.0.8 OSE. Our preliminary experimental results show that ShadowReboot shortened the downtime of commodity OS reboots on Windows XP and five Linux distributions (Gentoo, Fedora, Cent, Ubuntu, and SUSE) by 43 to 96%.
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Traveling forward in time to newer operating systems using ShadowReboot
VEE '13Operating system (OS) reboots are an essential part of updating kernels and applications on laptops and desktop PCs. Long downtime during OS reboots severely disrupts users' computational activities. This long disruption discourages the users from ...
Traveling forward in time to newer operating systems using ShadowReboot
VEE '13: Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environmentsOperating system (OS) reboots are an essential part of updating kernels and applications on laptops and desktop PCs. Long downtime during OS reboots severely disrupts users' computational activities. This long disruption discourages the users from ...
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July 2011
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ISBN:9781450311793
DOI:10.1145/2103799
- General Chairs:
- Haibo Chen,
- Zheng Zhang,
- Program Chairs:
- Sue Moon,
- Yuanyuan Zhou
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